BOOK REVIEWS

Mother Aspen

By Annette LeBox and Crystal Smith (ill.)

In 2021, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard upended the way we think about the natural world with her groundbreaking Finding the Mother Tree. In that book, she explained how trees in forests, even those of different ... Read More »

September 18, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Capital of Dreams

By Heather O’Neill

Fourteen-year-old Sofia Bottom has found herself alone due to the war that has come to her homeland. Elysia, a small European country, was once a vibrant, sensual, otherworldly place – where the arts flourished and ... Read More »

September 11, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir

By Chase Joynt

In the opening pages of Vantage Points, in a section titled “How This Book Works,” Chase Joynt quotes Douglas Coupland writing about Marshall McLuhan: “Art is art. And an artist, according to Marshall, is someone ... Read More »

September 11, 2024 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Stitching Science: Exploring Science from A–Z

By Lauren Wright Vartanian and Keltie Thomas

Inspired by her infant daughter, Guelph, Ontario, artist Lauren Wright Vartanian – an OCAD grad with a specialty in sculpture and textile-based work – decided to use the downtime provided by the COVID-19 pandemic to ... Read More »

September 11, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Songs for the Brokenhearted

By Ayelet Tsabari

Ayelet Tsabari’s Songs for the Brokenhearted begins with Zohara Haddad returning to Israel in 1995 for her mother Saida’s funeral. Zohara has been living in New York, where she is a graduate student at NYU, ... Read More »

September 4, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Little by Little: You Can Change the World

By Sonya Ballantyne and Rhael McGregor (ill.); Toben Racicot

Little by Little: You Can Change the World is the story of how Indigenous activist and speaker Michael Redhead Champagne found his calling. Readers are shown how his years as a child in the foster ... Read More »

September 4, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster

By Damian Tarnopolsky

With his new short story collection Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster, Toronto writer Damian Tarnopolsky (Goya’s Dog) explores the full potential of the form, pressing to the ... Read More »

August 28, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Dad, I Miss You

By Nadia Sammurtok and Simji Park (ill.)

Dad, I Miss You, written by Inuit author and educator Nadia Sammurtok, is an emotional story about a young boy taken from his family and placed in a residential school. Told through the internal monologues ... Read More »

August 28, 2024 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Outsmarters

By Deborah Ellis

Governor General’s Award–winning author Deborah Ellis returns with a terrific middle-grade novel set in contemporary Toronto. Written in first-person narrative, the book follows 12-year-old Kate Grey after she is suspended from school for behavioural issues. ... Read More »

August 21, 2024 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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